Nope. local channels continued to have ads but cable did not. Cable TV was advertised as being ad free because you were paying for it. It was part of the sales

Nope. local channels continued to have ads but cable did not. Cable TV was advertised as being ad free because you were paying for it. It was part of the sales pitch. My household was a subscriber in those early days and I remember the concern that ads were coming. I remember that they started by putting the ads between shows and only advertising upcoming shows on that channel. Then it moved to general ads about shows on that channel, then to ads about shows on other channels. At that point I knew the cause was lost and sure enough soon it was normal TV ads interrupting shows. Here is a newspaper article from around that time asking how much longer cable TV will be ad free https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...